1. Core Content Coaching Social Studies Grade 6 4th 6 weeks
World Cultures
CRM 4
Unit1: Geography of Europe
Unit 2: Early Cultures of Europe
Unit 3: Today’s Systems in Europe Unit 4: Systems for All
(Please allocate 45 – 50
minutes to view and
discuss this module.)

2. Planning needs … School Calendar/Yearly Itinerary (YI)
Curriculum Road Map (CRM)
TEKS/ELPS/CCRS
Textbooks: Our World Today, History Alive! World Cultures Kit
A resource for quality texts
A resource for higher order question stems
Lesson plan template 2

3. Yearly Itinerary: Pacing, SCA, Eligible TEKS
Yearly Itinerary information should be used along with school event calendar information to get an accurate of available instructional time. 3

4. Review CRM for Concept, Transfer Statement, Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, Units, Vocabulary, Arcs, Resources, Pacing the Arc…
Process Skills 6.21C, 6.21F, 6.22A 4

5. Social Studies Process Skills
Use one or more in every lesson.
Process Skills can be found at the beginning of the (Yearly Itinerary). 5

6. Look at the verbs, words, and phrases.
Look at the TEKS being taught for the lesson. What students will need to know and be able to do.
Look at the verbs, words, and phrases.
What TEKS are addressed during this lesson?
What academic vocabulary do students need to understand and use?
Which strategies will you use to teach the vocabulary?
What words or phrases in the TEKS may not be understood by the students?
What guiding question(s) will facilitate understanding and mastery? 6

7. Unit 1: Geography of Europe
TEKS verbs:6.3A pose and answer
6.4A locate
6.4D identify and locate
6.4F identify 7

8. TEKS: Look at the TEKS Verb, Words, Phrases…8

9. Students Will Know … Students Will Be Able To …
Read the Students Will
Be Able To…
How do these sections reflect
what is in the TEKS?
How will your teaching
reflect these sections?
Oral language strategies
Written response strategies
Questioning strategies
Collaborative learning strategies
Discuss in your group and share with each other:
What activities will I use to engage my students and ensure mastery of these TEKS?
How will I differentiate the activities for the students? 9

10. Deconstructing the TEKS
The next three slides (10,11,12) contain work templates to assist you in deconstructing the TEKS and a slide (13) with Social Studies verbs to assist you in understanding the verbs, the expectations, suggested instructional strategies and assessment /products . 10

11. Deconstructing the TEKS: Step 1, Knowledge and Skills Statement11

12. Deconstructing the TEKS: Step 2, Student Expectation12

13. Deconstructing the TEKS: Step 3,
Instructional and Assessment Implications 13

14. Social Studies Verbs 14

15. CRM: Assessment Evidence…15

16. Pacing a Lesson… 16 Regular Class Period Block class Period
Warm Up: 5 – 10 Minutes
A sample European geography warm up can be found on slide #16. with an answer key. You may want to break this down into two days worth of warm ups. Answer key on slide #18.
Instructional Activity: 40 Minutes
Gallery walk on European geography and locations. Students will need their text, wall maps, and/or an atlas to answer the questions found in “All Around Europe” #1, 2, 3, and 4.
(Slide #s 18 & 19). Post two sets of the questions on the walls and give students 10 minutes to answer each set of questions. Answer key on slide #20.
Closing: 5 Minutes
Debrief with students about the activity. What did they learn that they did not previously know? Ask students if any gaps on the activity sheets need to be addressed.
Instructional Activity #1: 40 Minutes
Gallery walk on European geography and locations. Students will need their text, wall maps, and/or an atlas to answer the questions found in “All Around Europe” #1, 2, 3, and 4 (Slide #s 18 & 19). Post two sets of the questions on the walls and give students 10 minutes to answer each set of questions. Answer key on slide #20.
Instructional Activity #2
Geography Sandwiches: Using the textbook or an atlas, students create geography sandwiches. Knowing that sandwiches have two pieces of bread and a filling in the middle, ex. Belgium > ? < Spain or Norway > ? < Denmark. Have students create two sets of sandwiches: a set with countries and a set
with cities. Student should create sandwiches for each category.
Debrief with students about the activity. What did they learn that they did not previously know? Ask students if gaps on the activity sheets need to be addressed. 16

17. Geography Warm-Ups 17

18. Answer Key for Geography Warm-Up18

19. 19

20. 20

21. Answer Key for All Around Europe
Activity #1
Activity # 2
Great Britain (or England or United Kingdom)
France
The Netherlands
Spain
Germany
Ireland
Scotland (or Great Britain)
Activity # 3
Activity # 4
Italy
Russia
Switzerland
Denmark
Norway
Greece
Turkey
Vatican City
Austria
Finland 21

22. Anchors of Support for 4th 6 weeks
Word walls
Vocabulary cards
Maps
Text book: Our World Today
Warm-ups
Interactive Student Notebook activities 22

23. Geography Instructional Resources
Geogames:
City life in Europe: France & Paris
European Union (various subjects/ppts):
Discovery Education: “Fighting 20th Century Tyranny”, “Dictator for a Day” (Rome), “European History Tour”,
(The Vatican )
“Where in the World is Mrs. Waffenschmidt? Website:
Paragraphs describing various European locations use activities
#s 3,6, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19,21, 25, 27 28, 33
Strait of Gibraltar:
Geography of Europe: of Europe.ppt
Straits of the World: Slides/ 23

24. Exemplar Lessons and other resources

25. Unit 2 Economics: CRM – Vocabulary and Resources25

26. Unit 2: Early Cultures of Europe26

27. Unit 2: Assessment Evidence and Lesson Resources27

28. Unit 3: Today’s Systems in Europe37

29. Assessment and Exemplar Lesson40

30. Unit 4: Systems for All

31. Unit 4: Assessment Evidence

32. Unit 4: Lesson Planning Tools

33. This completes the CCC for the 4th 6 weeks units on European Geography, Economics, and Government. 44